Thomas Rymer

Degree Year

1938

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Keywords

Thomas Rymer

Abstract

Thomas Rymer, critic, English historiographer Royal, and would-be dramatist, was born in 1641, the younger son of Ralph Rymer, Lord of the manor Brafferton in Yorkshire, who is said to have been "possessed of a good estate," but whose Roundband partisanship led him to poverty and finally execution for his part in the "Presbyterian rising" of 1663. Thomas received his early education at a private school at Danby-Wick, kept by Thomas Swelt, a Royalist noted for his lectures against rebels and regicides.... He [Rymer] is reputed to have been "a great favorite of Mr. Swelt's (Hickes, "Memoirs of John Kettlewall"), with whom he was "well known for his great critical skill in human learning, especially in poetry and history."

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